Senior Engineer, Scientific Software and Developer Platform, Modeling and Simulation
Kairos Power19 hours ago
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, test, maintain, and optimize scientific and engineering software in Python and C++, including computational modeling and numerical algorithms.
- Own software architecture for internal engineering tools, including interfaces, data structures, algorithms, maintainability, and performance decisions.
- Build and operate CI/CD, automated testing, quality gates, reproducible packaging, versioned artifact publication, and controlled release processes.
- Manage container build and runtime patterns using Docker and Apptainer, including base image currency and upgrade paths.
- Develop and support high-performance computing workflows involving Slurm, Open OnDemand, MPI, and GPU computing.
- Establish software design, documentation, maintainability, review, and knowledge-transfer standards across the engineering group.
- Mentor engineers, conduct design and code reviews, support software quality audits, and provide deep technical support to internal users.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, physics, mathematics, computational science, or a related technical field, or an equivalent combination of education and practical experience.
- At least 5 years of relevant software engineering experience, including work on scientific, engineering, computational, or other technically complex software.
- Strong demonstrable experience developing scientific or engineering software with both Python and C++.
- Experience implementing computational modeling methods, numerical methods, or comparable quantitative algorithms.
- Demonstrated software architecture experience and ability to reason about interfaces, maintainability, performance, and long-term cost.
- Experience with automated unit and integration testing, including frameworks such as PyTest or GoogleTest.
- Proficiency with Git, Linux, Bash, and SSH, plus experience mentoring engineers and conducting design and code reviews.
- Preferred qualifications include a master’s or Ph.D., containerization, Python packaging and Conda, CMake, GitHub Actions, performance optimization, software quality assurance, high-performance computing, Doxygen or Sphinx, relational databases, backend APIs, AWS, Google Cloud, and infrastructure as code.
Benefits
- Full-time employees may receive medical, dental, and vision benefits for themselves and dependents.
- Benefits include paid vacation, 401(k), and pre-tax health insurance, dependent care, and commuter FSA benefits.
- The position supports remote work and may require some travel for workshops and project assistance.
- Occasional weekend work, schedule flexibility, and extended hours may be required for launch and critical project timelines.
About Kairos Power
Kairos Power designs and commercializes advanced nuclear reactors using a fluoride-salt coolant to deliver high-temperature, low-carbon energy for utilities and industrial customers. The company develops, licenses, and builds demonstration systems as a path to fleet deployment, with offerings spanning reactor design, engineering, and operations support. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Alameda, California, the privately held firm grew out of U.S. university and national-laboratory research on fluoride-salt-cooled, high-temperature reactors (FHRs).